Promethean Love

Author : Timothy Madigan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443802642

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Promethean Love by Timothy Madigan Pdf

The myth of Prometheus has inspired countless generations of humanists throughout the ages. Prometheus -- who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans to help them survive -- remains a symbol for those who reject theistic orthodoxies and who fearlessly challenge accepted beliefs. Artists such as Byron, Goethe, Beethoven and Wagner have been influenced by this story. Most importantly, Prometheus is a symbol for selfless love. In this collection of essays, the Promethean myth and its relationship to the philosophy of love is explored from its origins in Ancient Greece, to its similarities and contrasts with the figure of Christ. Special emphasis is given to the work and writings of Paul Kurtz, the foremost contemporary defender of humanism as a worldview, who has made the figure of Prometheus a special part of his own philosophy.

Author : Ian Ruffell
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781472502490

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Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound by Ian Ruffell Pdf

Prometheus Bound is a play beloved of revolutionaries, romantics and rebels, with a fierce optimism tempered by an acute awareness of the compromises, dangers and obsessions of political action. This companion sets the play in its historical context, explores its challenge to authority, and traces its reception from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Many scholars have disputed its Aeschylean authorship, but it has proved the most influential of tragedies outside academia. Marx's favourite tragedy, Prometheus Bound is also a foundational text for the genre of science fiction through its influence on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In its open-eyed celebration of technology and democracy, it is the tragedy for the modern age.

Author : Robert W. Reid
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780557272648

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The Promethean Divide by Robert W. Reid Pdf

Three adventurers; a wealthy publisher, a soldier-of-fortune private eye, and an eccentric techie investigate the suspicious death of a friend. The case puts them on the trail of a strange serial killer who seems to have extraordinary powers. Their search leads to a secret society and astounding truths about mankind's past and future. As the human race rapidly approaches its technological singularity, these three comrades become enmeshed in the unfolding future of mankind. They are privileged to glimpse man's destiny on the other side of The Promethean Divide.

Author : Paul Kurtz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351294386

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Toward a New Enlightenment by Paul Kurtz Pdf

Paul Kurtz has been the dominant voice of secular humanism over the past thirty years. This compilation of his work reveals the scope of his thinking on the basic topics of our time and his many and varied contributions to the cause of free thought. It focuses on the central issues that have concerned Kurtz throughout his career: ethics, politics, education, religion, science, and pseudoscience. The chapters are linked by a common theme: the need for a new enlightenment, one committed to the use of rationality and skepticism, but also devoted to realizing the highest values of humanist culture. Many writings included here were first published in magazines and journals long unavailable. Some of the essays have never before been published. They now appear as a coherent whole for the first time. Also included is an extensive bibliography of Kurtz's writings. Toward a New Enlightenment is essential for those who know and admire Paul Kurtz's work. It will also be an important resource for students of philosophy, political science, ethics, and religion. Among the chapters are: "Humanist Ethics: Eating the Forbidden Fruit"; "Relevance of Science to Ethics"; "Democracy without Theology"; "Misuses of Civil Disobedience"; "The Limits of Tolerance"; "Skepticism about the Paranormal: Legitimate and Illegitimate"; "Militant Atheism vs. Freedom of Conscience"; "Promethean Love: Unbound"; "The Case for Euthanasia"; and "The New Inquisition in the Schools."

Author : Robert Maynard Leonard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015011923375

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Love Poems by Robert Maynard Leonard Pdf

Author : Jared Hickman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190272586

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Black Prometheus by Jared Hickman Pdf

The Prometheus myth, for several reasons became a crucial site for conceptualizing human liberation in the immanent space of a finite globe structured by white domination and black slavery. The titan's defiant theft of fire from the regnant gods was translated through a high-stakes racial coding either as an 'African' revolt against the cosmic status quo that augured a pure autonomy, a black revolutionary immanence against which idealist philosophers like Hegel defined their projects and slaveholders defended their lives and positions. Or as a 'Caucasian' reflection of the divine power evidently working in favor of Euro-Christian civilization that transmuted the naked egoism of conquest into a righteous heteronomy-Euro-Christian civilization's mobilization by the Absolute or its internalization of a transcendent principle of universal Reason.

Author : Zdenek Penkala
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443807104

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Life as an Experiment by Zdenek Penkala Pdf

We cannot live a full life unless we know who we are, unless we know the essence of our being. The sciences, which have been immensely helpful in the way in which we live our lives, have been helpless when it comes to telling us how our life should be lived and what its meaning is. Accepting any philosophical or religious belief, on the other hand, limits our freedom to learn directly from personal knowledge of reality, as any preconceived ideas do not only alter its perception, but limit the spectrum of possibilities to which our reason can be applied. To those who do not surrender their right to decide for themselves what reality is, life offers a unique opportunity to apply their insights both in the worlds within and without and either validates or disproves their findings. If they are true to themselves, the continuous feeedback life offers will reveal to them unique characterics of our mind, which are otherwise limited by its own beliefs.

Author : Stuart Peterfreund
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801867517

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Shelley Among Others by Stuart Peterfreund Pdf

This is a comprehensive reading of Shelley's oeuvre through the lens of developments in literary and psychoanalytic theory. The author provides though-provoking readings of well-known works and also explores less familiar pieces.

Author : Stephen D. Dowden,Thomas P. Quinn
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781571135858

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Tragedy and the Tragic in German Literature, Art, and Thought by Stephen D. Dowden,Thomas P. Quinn Pdf

Essays in this volume seek to clarify the meaning of tragedy and the tragic in its many German contexts, art forms, and disciplines, from literature and philosophy to music, painting, and history.

Author : Ramon Jiménez
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476633312

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Shakespeare's Apprenticeship by Ramon Jiménez Pdf

The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work. Now, new literary and historical evidence demonstrates that five heretofore anonymous plays published or performed during his lifetime are actually his first versions of later canonical works. Three histories, The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, The True Tragedy of Richard the Third, and The Troublesome Reign of John; a comedy, The Taming of a Shrew; and a romance, King Leir, are products of Shakespeare's juvenile years. Later in his career, he transformed them into the plays that bear nearly identical titles. Each is strikingly similar to its canonical counterpart in terms of structure, plot and cast, though the texts were entirely rewritten. Virtually all scholars, critics and editors of Shakespeare have overlooked or disputed the idea that he had anything to do with them. This addition of five plays to the Shakespeare canon introduces a new facet to the authorship debate, and supplies further evidence that the real Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford.

Author : Mark K. Warford
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781648897719

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Mantha: Alchemies of the Cultural Turn by Mark K. Warford Pdf

Set against the rich and troubled tapestry of the West’s Greco-Roman inheritance, the Sanskrit root 'manth/-', which roughly translates to “a churn” ('mantha') or “to churn” ('manth') in Sanskrit, serves as a cauldron into which age-old binaries are blended. A mantha of the Greek metaphysical notion of the One and the Many drives explorations of a variety of themes, including the Feminine and the Masculine, Self and Other, East and West, Heroes and Monsters, Olympians and Titans, Creativity and Innovation. Accordingly, the psychoanalytic canon is (re)introduced to a diversity of perspectives, from linguistics and Translation Studies to educational theory and horror fiction. Guided by the 'Opus Contra Culturam', Warford, infusing his background in linguistics, Translation Studies, Spanish, Sociocultural Theory, and Global Humanities, demonstrates the importance of stretching beyond what is known in one’s cultural milieu, that “one” taking many forms: the citizen, the student, the professional, the innovator, the scholar, and the infinite intersections of group identifications into which we are susceptible to being siloed. Specific topics include cultural complexes and trauma, Titanism, integrative approaches to human development and learning theory, the Monstrous, as well as creativity and innovation studies.

Author : Alan Richardson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271039039

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A Mental Theater by Alan Richardson Pdf

Certain works of Romantic drama&—Prometheus Unbound, Cain, The Cenci&—have received a good deal of critical attention, by as a whole the genre has been misunderstood and only slightly considered. Alan Richardson redresses a tradition of critical neglect by considering the works of Romantic drama not as failed stage-plays (&"closet drama&") but as constituting a new, distinctively Romantic genre. In turning from the contemporary stage&—which was marked by spectacle, rant, and melodrama&—the Romantic poets developed an altogether new kind of drama, one which they hoped could recapture the intensity of Shakespearean tragedy that Neoclassical writers had scarcely approached. Richardson calls this genre (after Byron) &"mental theater,&" both because its works are concerned with portraying the development of self-consciousness and because it fuses the subjectivity of lyric with the interaction of dramatic poetry. Moreover, these works are addressed directly to the mind of the reader, bypassing the medium of stage representation. This study places Romantic self-consciousness in a fundamentally new light. Far from uncritically pursuing an egoistic stance, the Romantics criticize through their poetic drama the attempt to attain psychic autonomy. The protagonists of Romantic drama are seduced by their antagonists into entering such a condition only to find in it a hollow, deathly isolation. They find in self-consciousness not their promised liberation, but a tormented fate modeled after that of their betrayers. Wordsworth, Byron, and Shelley delineate the limitations of &"Romantic&" self-consciousness in their works of mental theater; Shelley alone envisions their transcendence through his radical transformation of consciousness in the conclusion to Prometheus Unbound. This interpretation of mental theater will lead to a new evaluation of the Romantics as dramatic poets. It brings back to critical attention neglected but challenging works such as Byron's Heaven and Earth and Beddoes's Death's Jest-Book, and provides vital new perspectives on undervalued texts like Wordsworth's The Borderers and Byron's Manfred and Cain. It qualifies decades of critical speculation on &"Romantic individualism&" and &"Romantic consciousness,&" and helps return the ideal of imaginative sympathy to the central position held in the critical writings of the Romantics themselves. Finally, in emphasizing the dramatic quality of mental theater, it challenges the still-prevalent view that Romantic poetry in inherently lyrical in character. Scholars concerned with English Romantic drama, Romantic literature, and the Romantic period as well as English drama will find this work to be an important contribution to their understanding.

Author : Morny Joy,Kathleen O'Grady,Judith L. Poxon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136349768

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Religion in French Feminist Thought by Morny Joy,Kathleen O'Grady,Judith L. Poxon Pdf

Religion in French Feminist Thought: Critical Perspectives brings together some of the leading modern religious responses to major French feminist writings on religion. It considers central figures such as Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray and Catherine Clément, and its focus on questions of divinity, subjectivity, and ethics provides an accessible introduction to an area of growing philosophical interest. Illustrating the ways in which French feminism has become a valuable tool in feminist efforts to rethink religion, and responding to its promise as an intellectual resource for religious philosophy in the future, Religion in French Feminist Thought is ideal both for independent use and as a companion book to French Feminists on Religion (Routledge, 2001).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B4612914

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The New Age, Concordium Gazette, & Temperance Advocate by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raja Halwani,Alan Soble,Sarah Hoffman,Jacob M. Held
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442261440

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The Philosophy of Sex by Raja Halwani,Alan Soble,Sarah Hoffman,Jacob M. Held Pdf

With twenty-five essays, fourteen of which are new to this edition, this best-selling volume examines the nature, morality, and social meanings of contemporary sexual phenomena. Topics include sexual desire, masturbation, sex on the Internet, homosexuality, transgender and transsexual issues, rape, and promiscuity. New chapters discuss polyamory, transgender issues, queer issues, paraphilia, drugs and sex, objectification, BDSM, cybersex, and sex and race. Updated and new discussion questions offer students starting points for debate in both the classroom and the bedroom.